Yet Again

1stworld Library, Sir Max Beerbohm Sir

ISBN 10: 1421804743 / ISBN 13: 9781421804743

Edité par 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2005

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N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781421804743

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• Titre: Yet Again
• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1421804743
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781421804743
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New
• Dimensions: 13,97 L x 1,3 H x 21,59 P (centimètres) 13,97 centimètres de largeur par 1,3 centimètres de hauteur par 21,59 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 290 grammes

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - If I were `seeing over' a house, and found in every room an iron cage let into the wall, and were told by the caretaker that these cages were for me to keep lions in, I think I should open my eyes rather wide. Yet nothing seems to me more natural than a fire in the grate. oubtless, when I began to walk, one of my first excursions was to the fender, that I might gaze more nearly at the live thing roaring and raging behind it; and I dare say I dimly wondered by what blessed dispensation this creature was allowed in a domain so peaceful as my nursery. I do not think I ever needed to be warned against scaling the fender. I knew by instinct that the creature within it was dangerous - fiercer still than the cat which had once strayed into the room and scratched me for my advances. As I grew older, I ceased to wonder at the creature's presence and learned to call it `the fire, ' quite lightly. There are so many queer things in the world that we have no time to go on wondering at the queerness of the things we see habitually. It is not that these things are in themselves less queer than they at first seemed to us. It is that our vision of them has been dimmed.

Biographie de l'auteur

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy. In his later years he was popular for his occasional radio broadcasts. Among his best-known works is his only novel, Zuleika Dobson, published in 1911. His caricatures, drawn usually in pen or pencil with muted watercolour tinting, are in many public collections.